Starting October 2024, Malaysian police officers will be equipped with body-worn cameras (BWCs) to enhance transparency, accountability, and safety during operations.
Malaysian police officers will start wearing body-worn cameras (BWCs or bodycams) from October this year. This was revealed by Bukit Aman Crime Prevention and Community Safety Department director Datuk Wan Hassan Wan Ahmad, who said that a total of 7,648 BWCs will be supplied to PDRM in stages starting September. The BWC will mainly be used by personnel in the mobile patrol vehicle (MPV) and the motorcycle patrol unit (URB), which are under the department.
It will also be supplied to the Traffic Investigation and Enforcement Department. Wan Hassan said that the PDRM will take delivery of the BWCs in stages from September 2024 till February 2025. They will be placed at 157 district police headquarters and 640 police stations nationwide. The use of BWCs will also be conducted in stages starting in October. We believe they will be fully utilised by MPV and URB personnel by March next year, he said.and officers. The cameras are capable of recording the action of police officers in the field, including acts of wrongdoing,” he added. Wan Hassan said that BWC use will be made compulsory when a cop is on duty and it will be a disciplinary offence if an officer fails to wear the bodycam. Also, the camera does not have a delete recording function and it will be able to record for up to eight hours. Many in the public will be thinking of the police bodycams as ‘protection’ for us, but Wan Hassan says that BWC recordings can also be used to protect the force, and videos can be used as proof of a suspect’s verbal communication and actions, protecting officers from unwarranted criticism of their actions while carrying out their duties. The evidence works both ways, basically. “The standard operating procedure (SOP) for the use of BWCs is being finalised before they are distributed to all officers nationwide. The SOP is important to ensure that the instructions to use the BWC is fully adhered t
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